AFEU on Capitol Hill

Lee Stone, Western Federal Area VP/IFPTE Local 30 President, and George Hamilton, NASA Council President/IFPTE Local 27 President, were on Capitol Hill visiting with Congressional staff about the Fiscal Year 2017 (FY17) NASA budget.

Stone and Hamilton urged Congressional appropriators to provide a balanced and realistic approach to NASA’s funding. Among the funding priorities discussed were adequate investments in Science, Aeronautics, Space Technology, Exploration, Space Operations, and Education, just to name a few. As NASA’s largest civil servant union, representing workers at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC; NASA Goddard in Greenbelt, MD; NASA Glenn in Cleveland, OH; NASA Marshall in Huntsville, AL; and NASA Ames in Moffett Field, CA, IFPTE reminded Hill staff that without a robust investment in NASA, America will quickly fall behind China, Russia and others in space exploration.